Emoji

High school (ages 12+)
Thinking & Learning

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/emoji

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who wrote Emoji?The Unicode Consortium, which encodes emoji into the Unicode Standard
2. What is the pictorial communication system?A set of pictograms, logograms, and ideograms embedded in electronic text
3. What is the development origin?Originated in Japan in the late 1980s/1990s by portable electronic device companies
4. Where did emoji come from?Emoji started in Japan in the late 1980s and 1990s. A Japanese company called NTT DoCoMo created the first set of emoji for its mobile service in 1999.
5. Who made the first set of emoji?A designer named Shigetaka Kurita made the first 176 emoji for DoCoMo's i‑mode platform in 1999.

Pictogram: A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase, representing its meaning by visual resemblance.
Logogram: A written character that represents a word or morpheme, such as '$' for dollar.
Ideogram: A symbol that represents an idea or concept, rather than a specific word, like a heart ❤️ for love.
Unicode Standard: A universal character encoding standard that allows text and symbols to be displayed consistently across all computing platforms.